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  1. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    America teaches its children that every passion can be transmuted into an occasion to buy.
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  2. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    She went through some motions of housekeeping. Why was there nothing to sleep in but beds that had to be remade, nothing to eat from but dishes that had to be washed?
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  3. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    We all dream, and we all stand aghast at the mouth of the caves of our deaths;
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  4. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    Martyrs of a sort they were, these children, along with the town drunk, in his basketball sneakers and buttonless overcoat, draining blackberry brandy from a paper bag as he sat on his bench in Kazmierczak Square, risking nightly death by exposure; martyrs too of a sort were the men and women hastening to adulterous trysts, risking disgrace and divorce for their fix of motel love-all sacrificing the outer world to the inner, proclaiming with this priority that everything solid-seeming and substantial is in fact a dream, of less account than a merciful rush of feeling.
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  5. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    Which witch is which?
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  6. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    We all dream, and we all stand aghast at the mouth of the caves of our deaths; and this is our way in. into the nether world
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  7. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    An earth hard as iron lay locked beneath a sky whose mottled clouds spit snow like ashes sucked up a chimney and then dispersed with the smoke.
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  8. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    Men, they were able to conjure it up immediately, that was one of their powers, that thunderous splashing as they stood lordly above the bowl. Everything about them was more direct, their insides weren't the maze women's were, for the pee to find its way through.
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  9. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    Ever since, two summers ago, Joe Marino had begun to come into her bed, a preposterous fecundity had overtaken the staked plans, out in the side garden where the southwestern sun slanted in through the line of willows each long afternoon. The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please. Of plants, tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. Picking the watery orange-red orbs, Alexandra felt she was cupping a giant lover's testicles in her hand.
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  10. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare.
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  11. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
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  12. John Updike _ The Witches of Eastwick

    Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
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